SeudaNet BBS

The Bulletin Board System primarily used for community listings, various contract work, announcements, and heckling.

NetTag: A user's registered username within the system. Every resident may only have one NetTag and it can be traced back directly to the user. This is how it used to be, at least. Over time, NetTags have been posted on public forums and changed hands so frequently that Seuda officials can no longer reliably trace them back to their original owners properly, although due to the fairly unprofitable and stagnant nature of the BBS for either public or private interests, no one with power really cares. This has led to a community of miscreants and hackers who use false tags to easily conceal their identities online.

A user does not have free reign to design the entirety of their Tag. Upon creation of a NetTag, the user is offered a list of 5 adjectives and 5 nouns chosen randomly from the English language. The user may choose one adjective and one noun from this generated list to create their tag. Examples: SmilingTherapy, ConvenientArch, CalmComraderie. Once a combination of Adjective and Noun has been chosen, no subsequent user will ever be offered a set of 10 words that would allow for the creation of a duplicate Tag.

Due to the random nature of the Tag creation process and the exclusivity of only ever obtaining a single legitimate Tag, some Net users collect interesting and rare tags, like redundant, short, or extremely lengthy Tags. The collection of Tags from other users is absolutely against SeudaNet terms of use, but rarely sees proper enforcement.

Terminology:

BlueTag - refers to a user who still uses their original Tag. Can be foreshortened to "Blue," or "bt" or even "tagged" i.e. "she's still Blue," or "attention all bt" This stems from Seuda's attempt to half-assedly prevent Tag sharing by keeping a blue checkmark next to Tags that can still be properly verified. If at any point the Tag cannot be verified as still being in possession of the owner, this mark is lost and is excruciatingly hard to get back, to the point of comedy.

Clipped - refers to a user who uses someone else's tag, either because their original was sold or stolen at some point, or for posterity, or for masking their true identity

A lot of animosity is stirred up on the BBS between Tagged and Clipped users. Subcommunities have formed around one or the other. A lot of it is ironic fun between strangers but some people take it very seriously.